ABOUT THE ART

William Riker was born in Alaska, and quickly rose through the ranks of Starfleet. Strangely, however, he never took a captaincy. Though he was offered command a number of times he felt his place was on the bridge of the USS Enterprise as first office to Captain Jean Luc Picard.

While Riker had had other commanders in the past, Picard was the first to set him in a straight direction showing that there's more to being in Starfleet than simply pressing forward and trying to climb the next hurtle.

It probably didn't hurt that his old flame, Dianna Troi, was on board as well.

Though he has been cloned through a transporter accident, there is only one true William T Riker, and he's a jazz lover.